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Wow... I just had a flashback... Back in the day, when Doctor Who could easily be found on local PBS stations in the US, such as WLIW on Long Island... the stations needed to fill the remainder of the half hour after Doctor Who ended. Since Doctor Who episodes were typically around 24 minutes long, it left six or so minutes to fill to reach the half hour mark (top of the hour or bottom of the hour) before they would play their next programme. One of the ways WLIW filled this space was with a segment called Star Gazer with Jack Horkheimer the "Star Hustler"... (perhaps the segment was called "Star Hustler" at that time, I believe so, but I can't recall for sure now).

Jack would walk out (usually out of a star-field of sorts) wearing a "Members Only" jacket (if you don't know what that is, you weren't around in the early 80's) and talk about this week's astronomical news. Be it a comet passing Earth which can be seen that week or perhaps Mars peering through the Earth's night sky that can be seen with the "naked-eye".... Jack was on top of it and letting the viewers know about it.

Well, I just stumbled across the Star Gazer podcast... Yep, Jack is now podcasting. It is a video podcast in fact. I haven't seen it myself, but it is a production of WPBT2 Miami and the Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium (You can find out more about the podcast here).

[Quote by: Louis] I thought of Taras here in the Forums, but anyone interested in astronomy or just nostalgia of viewing Star Gazer after Doctor Who back in the 80's... might be interested in checking it out.

"Keep looking up!"

I also remember Jack Horkheimer -- Star Hustler. I had seen that he had videos of his show online a while back. I guess it makes all the sense in the world to release it as a podcast now. Yes, it was Star Hustler in those days. I remember reading about the rational for the name change a couple of years back.

Man, does that bring back memories! I also used to watch Star Hustler back in the '80s. I even remember trying to go out at 2 a.m. in the morning to see Halley's Comet (no luck in seeing it). But Jack did help me figure out how to see Mars, the rings of Saturn, and the moons of Jupiter.

I'm going to have to check out his video podcast. Thanks so much for the tip!